Jargon of the Whatever

It’s been a long time since I did a jargon of the day post. Years, maybe. Today, though, I offer you a list of useful geographic slang for international development concepts. That doesn’t really make sense, I know. Just skip to the list; you’ll see what I mean:

Geneva Conventions: Govern international law on the treatment of victims of war.

Warsaw Convention: Protects your luggage during air travel, or more accurately, protects airlines from liability for your luggage.

Cairo: The program of action agreed to at the 1994 international conference on population and development. Represented a major shift from thinking about population numbers to thinking about reproductive health.

Alma-Ata: 1978 conference that produced the Alma-Ata declaration which affirmed the importance of primary health care in achieving “health for all.”

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And to make things more complicated: there is also the Geneva Convention on Refugees, which is officially called the “United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees” but is often used in its shorthand form of the “Geneva Convention” — but is not part of the Geneva Conventions on humanitarian law in war.

Don’t forget the Washington Consensus, which describes the belief that neoliberal economic reform will solve development issues, and while it is no longer accepted as valid by many in development, it is still widely accepted as logical by the average US-American when they try to understand international relations

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Disclaimer

Everything written here is purely my personal opinion. The contents of this blog are the responsibility of me, Alanna Shaikh, and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of USAID or the U.S. Government.